Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and LecturesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 383 páginas |
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... which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts , that is , the poet . This is the best part of these men's farms , yet to this their warranty - deeds give no title . Na- To speak truly , few adult persons can see 6 NATURE .
... which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts , that is , the poet . This is the best part of these men's farms , yet to this their warranty - deeds give no title . Na- To speak truly , few adult persons can see 6 NATURE .
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... persons can see nature . Most persons do not see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose ...
... persons can see nature . Most persons do not see the sun . At least they have a very superficial seeing . The sun illuminates only the eye of the man , but shines into the eye and the heart of the child . The lover of nature is he whose ...
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... person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , ― the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
... person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , ― the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another aspect under ...
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... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wis- dom , it is a sign to us that his ...
... person to outgo our ideal ; when he has , moreover , become an object of thought , and , whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect , is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wis- dom , it is a sign to us that his ...
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... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and religion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture , which God paints on the instant eternity , for ...
... persons and things , of actions and events , of country and religion , not as painfully accumulated , atom after atom , act after act , in an aged creeping Past , but as one vast picture , which God paints on the instant eternity , for ...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.